Category Archives: Life Lived Fully

When I was eighteen I had a surgery done. I was diagnosed with a little disease called endometriosis. Endometriosis has been the bad boyfriend I have been trying to break up with for 35 years. He wreaks havoc on my … Continue reading →

It’s official cheating is a VERY good thing. I read a book a few years ago titled Choosing to Cheat by Andy Stanley. Sad to say four years later I think the concept is finally anchoring itself in the sea … Continue reading →

I have now sat down at this computer five times. It’s a twisted sort of writer’s block called: I have so much to write I do not know what to write. But here I sit at our farm table eyes … Continue reading →

I am sitting here finishing up this piece as I sit in hospice with my dying grandmother, who is more like my best friend than a grandparent.  Sweet Mary Lane had a massive heart attack on December 12th. If you … Continue reading →

I have been thinking a lot lately about two things lately that at first don’t seem related but if you dig deeper they are emotional twin brothers: How the holidays can stir up all kinds of emotion that lay dormant … Continue reading →

I don’t usually do this. But I have had too many conversations with too many people who are fraught and careworn by this ole demon. And as I was thinking about what to write while parked at a red light … Continue reading →

I never thought I was perfectionist. If you stopped me on the side of the sidewalk and asked me earnestly, Are you  a perfectionist? I would give you a belly roaring laugh laced with mockery for such a question and … Continue reading →

Giggles ascending over the card aisle, talk of frat parties, what and what not to wear fall on me like dust particles I once felt fresh. I am disheveled which is my normal state of being as of late. Outfitted … Continue reading →

This Tuesday night as I was once again sitting in my favorite outdoor comfy chair swiveling side to side to the rhythm of my meandering shallow, deep thoughts, watching Roman and his cousins splish and splash in the vibrant, aqua … Continue reading →

Sometimes it’s worth diggin’ up the past. Even past posts. As I thought  pensively what to write about an event that so rocked my world, gripped my mother’s heart four years ago and still has yet to loosen the hold, I kept … Continue reading →